(senior) Software Engineer - Paid Search ad:s

Company Description

We're the world's leading sports technology company, at the intersection between sports, media, and betting. More than 1,700 sports federations, media outlets, betting operators, and consumer platforms across 120 countries rely on our know-how and technology to boost their business.



Job Description

“Sportradar ad:s” provides data-driven marketing and sponsorship services to the iGaming industry, designed to help deliver significant efficiency improvements for marketing investments. The ad:s team develops and provides purpose-built tools and services to meet the individual marketing needs of sportsbooks and media publishers worldwide.

The Paid Search team is developing tools that will integrate and analyze data from our clients' chosen search advertising platforms, such as Google Ads and Microsoft Ads. This will empower our PPC experts to provide tailored guidance on improving account performance. Additionally, we aim to enhance client accounts through direct customisation, allowing us to dynamically update ads with live content from our internal feeds or those provided by clients.

From a technical perspective, our product consists of multiple microservices hosted entirely in a cloud environment with AWS. We employ Terraform used as infrastructure-as-code (IaC), ensuring consistent and efficient environment management. Our backend is predominantly developed with NodeJS & Typescript. We deploy to AWS Lambdas for our APIs, which connect to Amazon DynamoDB for handling mutable data. Additionally, we manage substantial data volumes stored in Amazon S3, which are subsequently crawled and analysed using AWS Glue and Athena. To facilitate communication between our services, we utilise a combination of Amazon SNS and SQS, providing a robust and scalable messaging system. The front-end is built with Vue.js, leveraging PNPM for fast and efficient package management, and Turborepo for orchestrating the monorepo. We work in atrunk-based development setup, promoting collaboration, rapid integration and early feedback to accelerate delivery and maintain high code quality. Our continuous integration and deployments are managed through GitLab CI.

THE ROLE
As a (Senior) Software Engineer - Paid Search (m/f/d) in the Paid Search team, you will be a core member of the cross-functional product team on the delivery of their roadmap and helping the more junior members of the team develop via mentoring. Working closely with the Product Owner you will have the opportunity to shape the product backlog via ideation and refinement. You will help guide the technical direction of the team, leaning on your experience to shape innovative solutions.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Contribute and develop a self-organised, agile software development team.
• Build and maintain advertising technologies, from requirements gathering to developing functional UI.
• Collaborate with team members to ensure code quality, observability, and security in development.
• Engage in a supportive, collaborative team environment and contribute to maintaining a positive culture.
• Apply best practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Coach and develop team members by providing feedback and technical guidance

YOUR PROFILE

• 3+ years with web development technologies like TypeScript, especially using Node.js and a Frontend Framework (e.g., Vue.js).
• Experience working in an agile/lean development environment.
• Passion for writing clean, maintainable code and testing.
• Strong communication skills, ownership, and a user-focused mindset.
• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures (experience with AWS serverless technologies or containers is a plus, but a willingness to learn is essential).
• Knowledge of databases (SQL or NoSQL) and experience working with them.
• Interest in learning new technologies and a proactive approach to skill development.
• Willingness to practice Test-Driven Development (TDD).

OUR OFFER  

• The possibility to help shape the future of Sportradar
• All developers are directly contributing to products used by our clients in the global sports business
• The opportunity to work and develop within an inspiring and fast-growing company
• The opportunity to grow your skills (German and English courses, Sportradar eAcademy, Engineering workshops, Code Retreats, Randori styled Coding Kata)
• Involvement in shaping your own workday and career through a high degree of freedom to choose technology and your personal development path 
• A collaborative environment with colleagues from all over the world (Engineering offices in Europe, Asia and US) 
• A company culture that promotes social aspects, sports, physical exercise and fun
• Innovative and cross-team challenges, office sports tournaments in Darts, Table Tennis, Tennis and others
• Sportradar takes over the full costs of € 365.- for the Öffi-Ticket (Jahreskarte) for you
• A hybrid working model and the possibility to work from a home office when needed 

While we value the opportunities to work from home, we truly believe that being together, and sharing ideas, opportunities, trials and tribulations with teammates make us stronger and more innovative – individually and as a company. We strengthen the fibers of our Company each and every day, just by being together. For this reason, we operate a hybrid model where we are in the office 3 days a week.  

The minimum monthly salary for this position is according to the Collective Bargaining Agreement, overpayment will be considered depending on qualifications and working experience.

We relocated to our office near the Nordbahnviertel in the 2nd district of Vienna in Q1/2024. Due to the top inner-city location, we are excellently connected to the public transport network and the cycle path network and are therefore very easy to reach. In addition, we offer our employees a state-of-the-art infrastructure near the center of the most livable city in the world. 

Buckle up, hold on tight and get ready for an incredible adrenaline-rush throughout this exciting ride with us: #maketheteam and shape your future as well as ours!



Additional Information

At Sportradar, we celebrate our diverse group of hardworking employees. Sportradar is committed to ensuring equal access to its programs, facilities, and employment opportunities. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. We encourage you to apply even if you only meet most of the requirements (but not 100% of the listed criteria) – we believe skills evolve over time. If you're willing to learn and grow with us, we invite you to join our team!